Kick-Ass review
Apr. 9th, 2010 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAfter much deliberation, I applied my New Year's cinema-going resolution and went to see Kick-Ass on Wednesday night.
I enjoyed it a lot more than I'd feared, but not as much as I'd hoped. The rest of the audience certainly found it funnier than I did, though there were several moments that made me laugh.
I thought it was very well made, with a good script, some good acting, and a fair amount of good action.
I think there maybe ought to be something wrong with being entertained by an 11-year-old girl swearing a lot and killing vast swathes of bad guys with multifarious weaponry - but I can't help it - Hit Girl is just *cool*! I think I might have enjoyed her presence even more if I hadn't been completely spoilered as to her character by reading Empire beforehand.
I know Nicolas Cage was trying to reference the 60s Batman when in constume (as informed by Empire articles) but I really don't think it worked, though he was both sympathetic and pretty funny when out of costume.
However, overall, I thought the film trod an odd line. It wasn't quite real enough for pathos, but it was just a bit too real for humour in most places, so I found it difficult to categorise and a little unsettling. I can certainly see why a lot of people think it's fantastic, though, and the violence wasn't an issue at all, so at least my New Year resolution is working on that front.
I enjoyed it a lot more than I'd feared, but not as much as I'd hoped. The rest of the audience certainly found it funnier than I did, though there were several moments that made me laugh.
I thought it was very well made, with a good script, some good acting, and a fair amount of good action.
I think there maybe ought to be something wrong with being entertained by an 11-year-old girl swearing a lot and killing vast swathes of bad guys with multifarious weaponry - but I can't help it - Hit Girl is just *cool*! I think I might have enjoyed her presence even more if I hadn't been completely spoilered as to her character by reading Empire beforehand.
I know Nicolas Cage was trying to reference the 60s Batman when in constume (as informed by Empire articles) but I really don't think it worked, though he was both sympathetic and pretty funny when out of costume.
However, overall, I thought the film trod an odd line. It wasn't quite real enough for pathos, but it was just a bit too real for humour in most places, so I found it difficult to categorise and a little unsettling. I can certainly see why a lot of people think it's fantastic, though, and the violence wasn't an issue at all, so at least my New Year resolution is working on that front.
